Cool enough?

cha0s17 · 14 Jun 2006 at 14:30

its now been 5days since I built this and the temps have been up and down since it was hot sat-mon, they are idle at the moment:

CPU: 44'ish
VGA: 62'ish
HDD: 30'ish

heard things about 60c+ is bad, any info so I can reassure myself it won't melt?

LCD monitor (from X-Blade case) shows up as:

CPU: 37
VGA: 51
HDD: 25

if they go past 60c the alarm goes off which it was doing few days ago so I set it to 85c :rolleyes:

cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:16

at load, about 51 cpu and 72 gpu

kinda high and it wasn't even that hot outside yesterday

any advice? before the summer comes and overwhelms them..

cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:21

okay, and in the meantime if it melts I can just replace it with the manafacturer right?

I'm kinda broke at the moment so I can't get any further cooling..

cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:27

i'm sure the cpu gets higher on load to about 60, not sure why as all these parts are quite new (5days)

cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:48

think the case has (similiar) to the akasa LED fan 120cm front (blows in) and back (blows out) and one 90mm on the side case (blows out), they seem very weak hardly enough blowing power.

there's no cables left from the psu to allow them to be fitted, so they are linked to the hard drive, dvd-rom & the side i think has an individual connection.. is it the power (580W) or that the runs speeds on the 120mm are 2000rpm? (akasa ones)

if I was to upgrade the cooling, what would I need?

CPU: Zalman CNPS9500-AM2 Aero Flower
VGA: Zalman VF900-CU Quiet Copper VGA Cooler

them any good? my cpu is AM2, as for the case fans, is it because they need power or are they just built slow

any recommendations on them? (take away my cases lights

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cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:58

alright new cpu cooler it is, now I just gotta save a load up for the removal stuff, arctic cooler and the fan.

probably stick with stock gfx cooler at the moment, £420 is a bit high to void the warrant, whereas the cpu I did myself so its really upto me about voiding thats warrant.

cheers guys

cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 14:03

Mikey1280 said:
Just use a tissue to clean it off as well..

will that not interfere with the cooling, or are these removal product displays for show

sounds alright though. :cool:

cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 14:04

200+ hours, for the thermal pad..then its okay running at this temp in the meantime or is it a bit risky?

cha0s17 · 15 Jun 2006 at 14:28

flooded with ideas

, thanks all.
i'll do some research on it, if it gets any hotter i'll have to look for better cooling, still a bit worried about gpu though =P, i've had two gpu's burn out before this, and they used to run at 60-70 load (5700LE & 6600) they only lasted like a year

i'll consider folding aswell to do my part back to the community :cool:

cha0s17 · 16 Jun 2006 at 19:38

in sig, Gainward bliss 7950 oc'd to 520mhz core and 1300mhz memory, just doing 10% oc's at the time being as to not overload em, cpu runs at 50-60 and gpu runs at 60-75, so just gonna sit back until I can get some better cooling.